VOLUSIA, Fla. - A suspected carjacker bailed out of the vehicle and into the Halifax River before being arrested by deputies. After the arrest, the suspect decided to ask the deputies if he could bum a cigarette from them.

The backstory:

Monday night, Volusia County Sheriff's Deputies pursued a suspected carjacker in the Daytona Beach Shores area.

It was about 9 p.m., when the victim told deputies that the man, later identified as Grant Hagood-James, begged him for a ride. Once allowed in the vehicle, the victim told deputies that the suspect pulled a gun and forced him out of the car.

Issuing an alert for the stolen vehicle, deputies scrambled the helicopter into the air to surveil the neighborhood looking for the suspect.

With deputies on his trail, Hagood-James abandoned the car

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